Re: Which computer to buy ?
Cam Ellison wrote:
>
> Lars Knudsen wrote:
> >
> > hzi@uol.com.br wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello, Antonio!
> > >
> > > IMHO, you should buy Intel, since AMD chips don't do floating
> > > point operations adequately (these are important in graphics), unless you
> >
> > This was true years ago but is certainly not true anymore.
> > The AMD Duron and Thunderbird chips are at least as good as
> > a PIII and very much better than the P4. The P4 is only
> > worthwhile if you have applications that are specifically
> > optimized for it and as far as I know no such applications
> > exists for Linux.
> >
>
> A recent article in The COmputer Paper (you could find it in
> www.canadacomputes.com. I think) found the Athlon 1.2 whipped the P4 in
> virtually every test category. And it's less than half the price,
> especially when you add memory into the equation.
>
> --
> Cam Ellison Ph.D. R.Psych.
Something similar is reported in http://www.tomshardware.com
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